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- Comment on Help Us Test New WvW Scoring in a Beta Test Starting February 27! – GuildWars2.com 1 week ago:
Could be interesting. I did a fair amount of wvw, but the points system always felt kind of meh. People didn’t really care about defending that much. You’d often find a Zerg just running around the map flipping things.
- Comment on Families in New York City demonstrated against a proposal to allow cars in a local park. A politician showed up in a car to mock them 1 week ago:
guessing there is a correlation with MAGA.
Stupid, selfish, people.
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 2 weeks ago:
On the one hand, you don’t really want to give people the power to decide what books are available. Assholes would use that to remove queer books, for example.
On the other hand, that power is already implicitly in place. There’s finite space in a library, so they must choose a subset of all possible books. I’d want to know how the existing processes work before suggesting changes.
- Comment on Geoguessr, but actually fun 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. The inability to pan and walk around makes it very different. I liked “walking” around in geoguesser until I found a landmark or something, but I never played competitively or obsessively.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
Bg1 and 2, Dragon age, and mass effect famously had save imports, so “the only way” doesn’t check out.
The dark souls games are so far removed in time that the previous game is legend, so that’s an option.
For the tv show they also could have, as I said, just set it somewhere and somewhen else. They can have rumors about what’s happening in Vegas, but it’s 20 years ago and you’re in Chicago, so who knows what’s true.
So, yeah, they could’ve done something else and still made a TV show.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
What made new Vegas interesting was that it’s not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It’s post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.
My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn’t just set it somewhere else.
But admittedly I haven’t actually watched it.
But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won’t make everyone happy, and it’s an entirely avoidable problem. They could’ve just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn’t had a game.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
I found a pizza place near me that still has like 2010 prices. It’s like a large pie with 5 toppings for $20. Most places are more like $30 now, here (NYC)
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
I kind of refuse to watch Fallout. Partly because I read they fucked up the NCR. But also Amazon sucks , and Bethesda is kind of creatively bankrupt.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler for Shadowheart’s story
spoiler
Viconia is a recruitable party member in bg1 and 2. You can even make her not evil at the end. I was bummed that they decided that she just stays evil.
And for the main plot in act 3, with a certain bhaalspawn.
spoiler
You can also redeem sarevok, but they just decided that he’s evil.
Annoying, but I get why they didn’t do like a save import from an ancient game.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.
Technically I don’t have to watch it. I don’t have to play any more games in the franchise either. But if I do want to play more games in the franchise, I’ll probably have to deal with the show.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 weeks ago:
Can we just not do this?
One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.
Two, the game had a lot of decisions players could make. Collapsing that into a single canon is going to be unsatisfying. It was annoying enough that bg3 made some big decisions about choices from bg2.
Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.
Three, it’s not even that interesting a setting. It’s pretty Standard Fantasy.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t really like the model where it starts basic and hard, and each failure makes it a little easier.
Feels like it would be more interesting if you started with high stats, and each successful run you had to remove or lower something. Sure, you won with 200 health but can you win with 100? Hades kind of had this alongside the upgrades as you go.
I didn’t like dead cells or rogue legacy that much because it felt like I would’ve won if I had grinded more, and that’s not what I want.
I feel like games are usually a mix of execution challenges and numbers challenges. In a pure action game or other games without progression (eg: chess) you win or lose from your decisions and input. But in numbers games, you win or lose based on the stats. There’s really no way cloud from the start of the original ff7 can defeat disc 3 bosses. The numbers just aren’t there.
Some rogue-lites feel like they’re trying to be execution games but have a less clear numbers check on top. Doesn’t always work for me.
I do really like the traditional rogue like Crawl: Stone Soup, though. No meta game aside from the occasional player ghost.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Is it like the other ones where it takes several hours until you start finding interesting guns and get cool powers?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this but I haven’t taken the time to find a rom and emulator and get it working (on Linux)
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don’t want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.
Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.
- Comment on Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who’s still a Republican is some combination of fool and monster.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 4 weeks ago:
…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.
You can live a full life without Internet videos.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t do all the optional bosses in expedition 33. I finished the plot and was so powered up the story bosses didn’t even get a turn. But fighting the billion hp “dodge 13 hits in a row or die” just wasn’t fun for me.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 1 month ago:
Capitalism. The rich owner types don’t like this sort of thing, and they have a lot of power. They don’t really have coherent values except “in-group to protect, out-group to bind” and “no one tells me what to do. i tell you what to do.”
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 1 month ago:
Honestly, probably yes. People are emotional people and a face to face conversation can be a big impact.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_canvassing is one take on it
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 1 month ago:
Zohran had many volunteers knocking on doors and talking to people. He’s also charismatic, and focused on concrete actionable things.
It’s hard to get people mad about “let’s run buses on time”.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Broadly, where the optimal path is the boring or tedious path.
Imagine an action game where you fight monsters and get coins for defeating them. Coins can be exchanged to buy new moves, advance the plot, and so on. Basic game loop.
Now imagine that you get triple coins if you wear the red shirt when fighting red monsters. Every time you see a red monster, you could go into the menu, into equipment, into body armor, swap on the red shirt, exit all the menus, and kill the monster. Then repeat all that for blue shirt and blue monsters.
This is a made up example but some games do shit like that, where you have to do something tedious for a big payoff.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 1 month ago:
I don’t let the problem get that bad in the first place.
On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven’t looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 month ago:
To many “smart” people have stood up and taken the credit for hundreds of others and generations of work.
Like CEOs taking credit for all the work their engineers did.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
I didn’t get one because it’s too expensive.
Steam deck was a little pricey but it has a backlog of games going back like 50 years, and I already have a large library. Plus the games are cheaper.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 1 month ago:
I’ve sent this to many coworkers.
I wanted to introduce a jar where every time you sent a useless “hello” message you had to put double whatever you put in last time (starting at $1). People are empty headed idiots maybe losing +$1000 will wake them up.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 month ago:
I feel like online spaces like lemmy over represent some behaviors.
- Comment on A conservative think tank is suing Oregon over a new law that makes it illegal to impersonate a union representative 1 month ago:
The law allows union representatives to sue anyone for $6,250 if they can prove an individual falsely impersonated a union representative.
That is too small a fine.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask but maybe this comic will be interesting anyway
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 month ago:
People are idiots. They believe things that feel good.